When Leonard Bernstein died at the age of 72 on October 16, 1990, his obituary filled an entire page of the New York Times. The paper called him one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history. At age 40 the youngest music director ever of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein had a rare musicality that melded emotion with analysis. This boxed set of videos endorsed by the Bernstein Estate allows us to experience the thrilling intensity with which Bernstein communicated his interpretations. The repertoire includes Brahms's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 (Jerusalem, 1973); Franck's Symphony in D Minor and Milhaud's La création du monde and Le bœuf sur le toit (Paris, 1981; first release on DVD); Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, and Symphony No. 39 (Vienna, 1981, with the conductor as soloist); Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1989—the historic concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall); and Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 (Vienna, 1990).